Praise Quotes

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.